Human cytomegalovirus neutralising antibodies and use thereof

a technology of cytomegalovirus and neutralizing antibodies, which is applied in the field of human cytomegalovirus neutralising antibodies, can solve the problems of modest neutralizing potency of antibodies isolated so far, and hcmv is also known to cause pathology, and achieves high potency in neutralizing hcmv

Active Publication Date: 2010-04-15
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDECINE
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[0005]The invention is based, in part, on the discovery of novel antibodies that neutralize hCMV infection with high potency as well as novel epitopes to which the antibodies of the invention bind. Accordingly, in one aspect, the invention comprises an antibody and antigen binding fragments thereof that have high potency in neutralizing hCMV.

Problems solved by technology

Although some antibodies to gH, gB and UL128 and UL130 gene products have demonstrated in vitro neutralizing activities [7, 10, 11] and an antibody to gH was evaluated in clinical trials (that were discontinued due to lack of therapeutic effects), the neutralizing potency of the antibodies isolated so far is modest.
However, hCMV is also known to cause pathology by infecting other cell types such as endothelial, epithelial cells and leukocytes.

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Cloning of B Cells and Screening for hCMV Neutralizing Activity

[0192]Donors with high hCMV neutralizing antibody titres in the serum were identified. Memory B cells were isolated and immortalised using EBV and CpG as described in reference 36. Briefly, memory B cells were isolated by negative selection using CD22 beads, followed by removal of IgM+, IgD+ IgA+ B cells using specific antibodies and cell sorting. The sorted cells (IgG+) were immortalized with EBV in the presence of CpG 2006 and irradiated allogeneic mononuclear cells. Replicate cultures each containing 50 memory B cells were set up in twenty 96 well U bottom plates. After two weeks the culture supernatants were collected and tested for their capacity to neutralize hCMV infection of either fibroblasts or epithelial cells in separate assays. B cell clones were isolated from positive polyclonal cultures as described in reference 36. IgG concentrations in the supernatant of selected clones were determined using an IgG-speci...

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Identification of the Target Antigens Recognized by the Monoclonal Antibodies

[0197]To map the specificity of the hCMV neutralizing antibodies, HEK293T cells were transfected with one or more vectors encoding full length hCMV proteins UL128, UL130, UL131A, gH, gL, gB, gM, and gN. After 36h, cells were fixed, permeabilized and stained with the human monoclonal antibodies followed by goat anti-human IgG. FIG. 1 shows the binding of representative antibodies to HEK293T cells expressing one or more hCMV proteins. Table 6 shows the staining pattern of all the different antibodies to hCMV gene-transfected HEK293T cells. With the exception of antibody 15D8, that stained UL128-transfected cells, all the other Group 2 antibodies did not stain single gene transfectants, suggesting that they may recognize epitopes that require co-expression of more than one gene product. Indeed, five antibodies (4N10, 10F7, 10P3, 4I22 and 8L13) stained cells co-expressing UL130 and UL131A, six antibodies (2C12,...

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Breadth of Neutralizing Activity of Antibody 15D8

[0220]UL128 is the most conserved gene of the UL132-128 locus. However, sequences derived from several clinical isolates revealed the existence of 10 variants with one or more mutations when compared to the VR1814 sequence. We therefore investigated whether the binding of the UL128-specific antibody 15D8 would be affected by any of these mutations. To this aim, published amino acid sequences of variants of UL128 from clinical isolates (VR4603-M, VR4836-M, VR5001-M, VR4254-M, VR4969-M, VR4313-M, VR4116-M, VR5235-T, VR5055-T, VR4168-A, VR1814-PCR) and laboratory strains (Towne, TB40 / E, AD169, Merlin and Toledo) were aligned, and a gene was synthesized encoding a protein that includes all amino acid substitutions described as well as an additional mutation that we found to be generated at very high frequency in vitro upon PCR amplification (F33V). The nucleotide sequence of the synthetic gene was:

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Abstract

The invention relates to neutralizing antibodies, and antibody fragments thereof, having high potency in neutralizing hCMV, wherein said antibodies and antibody fragments are specific for one, or a combination of two or more, hCMV gene UL products. The invention also relates to immortalized B cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to, such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of disease.

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[0001]This application claims the benefit of priority of U.S. provisional Application No. 61 / 081,334, filed Jul. 16, 2008, the disclosures of which is hereby incorporated by reference as if written herein in its entirety.BACKGROUND[0002]Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is a widely distributed pathogen that may cause severe pathology in immunosuppressed adults and upon infection of the fetus and has been implicated in chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis. hCMV infects multiple cell types including fibroblasts, endothelial, epithelial and hematopoietic cells [1]. In vitro propagated attenuated strains of hCMV, which are being developed as candidate vaccines, have lost the tropism for endothelial cells, while retaining the capacity to infect fibroblasts [2]. Two viral glycoprotein complexes are believed to control the cellular tropism of hCMV. A complex of glycoproteins such as gH, gL and gO appears to be required for infection of fibroblasts, while a complex of gH, gL and proteins enc...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07K16/08C12N15/11C12N15/13C12N5/10C07K2/00A61K39/395A61K31/7088A61K38/02G01N33/566
CPCA61K2039/505A61K39/42C12N2710/16122C07K16/088A61K2039/507C07K2317/56C07K2317/565C07K2317/21C07K2317/92C07K2317/76A61K38/00C07K14/005A61P31/12A61P31/14A61P31/20A61P31/22C07K16/08C12N15/11A61K39/395C07K2317/34C07K2317/54C07K2317/55C07K2317/622A01D34/63A01D34/71A01D2101/00A61K39/00C07K2317/41
Inventor LANZAVECCHIA, ANTONIOMACAGNO, ANNALISA
Owner INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDECINE
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